The vvise-woman of Hogsdon : a comedie, as it hath been sundry times acted with great applause

by: Heywood, Thomas, approximately 1574-1641; King, Samuel, author of afterword, colophon, etc; Parsons, Marmaduke, -1639, printer; Shepheard, Henry, bookseller; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner

Publication date: 1638

Publisher: London : Printed by M[armaduke]. P[arsons]. for Henry Shephard, and are to be sold in his Shop in Chancerie-Lane, at the Signe of the Bible, between Serjeants-Inne and Fleet-street

Collection: bplsctpbs; bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Associates of the Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Printer's name from STC

Signatures: A-I⁴.

Title page vignette; headpieces; initials

Caption title for commendatory verses by Samuel King (at end) reads: "To his chosen friend; the learned author Mr Thomas Heywood." Greg gives "Hewood" for "Heywood" (variant?)

ESTC

STC (2nd ed.)

Greg

Pforzheimer

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in sprinkled calfskin paneled in gilt. Spine paneled and tooled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. The title page trimmed and heavily repaired, with portions of title in pen facsimile. Title inscribed along fore-edge of leaf B4 in an early hand.